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No. 745,150. PATENTED OV. 24,1903.

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UNTTED STATES Patented November 24, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 745 ,150, datedNovember 24, 1903.

Application filed February 16,1903. Serial No. 143.465. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. BUsBY,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of SanFrancisco, State of California, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Gloves; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

Myinvention relates tothe class of gloves; and it consists in the novelconstruction and relative arrangement of the parts or portions thereof,which I shall hereinafter describe.

The object of my invention is to provide a strong, well-fitting, andcomfortable glove, with due regard to economy in cutting, said objectbeing obtained by such `patterns as will give when united a glove inwhich the entire thumb is integral with the main por'- tion, leaving noseams of any kind in the palm of the glove, the thumb springingintegrally from the palm in the most'natural and favorable position forfreedom and fit and giving the maximum strength to resist all strains.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of myglove. Fig. 2 is a backgview of same. Fig. 3 is a view of the mainpattern or trank forming the larger portion of the glove, including theintegral thumb, and showing also in dotted lines the stretched point a3,underlying the upper part of the thumb portion. Fig. 4 is a broken orpartial view of the trank of Fig. 3 reversed to show the stretched pointa3 in full. Fig. 5 is a view of the fourchette of the second nger. Fig.6 is a View of the fourchette of the third finger. Fig. 7 is a View ofthe front Wrist-gore.

-In the glove shown in Figs. 1 and 2 a single piece or trank A forms theentire front a of the palm and Wrist, with the exception of a gore inthe Wrist, the entire thumb a', with its ball and Wrist extension, bothfront and back, the entire first and fourth ngers 1 and 4., the fronts 2and 3 of the second and third fingers, and back 0.2 of the glove on thefourthfinger side. The remainder of the back of the glove is formed bythe fourchettes B and C of the second and third iingers,respectively.The remainder or excepted part of the front of the glove-to Wit, theWrist-is formed by a gore D, which is originally a single piece,

but when the glove is completed is, as shown, divided by thewrist-opening d To better understand the parts of the glove, I refer nowto Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, which show the patterns or shapes of theseparts before they are united. In Fig. 3 the main pattern or piece isdesignated by A, its several portions being correspondingly lettered andnumbered to those of the glove-to Wit, the palm tt, the thumb'a, thefirst 'and fourth fingers 1 and 4, the fronts 2 and 3 of the second andthird fingers, and the fourth-finger side of the back a2. Thefourchettes B and CI of the second and third fingers 2 and 3 are shownin Figs. 5 and 6, and the Wrist-gore D is sho'Wn complete in Fig. 7. Nowit Will be seen that when the main piece or trank A is bent or folded tohave its several seams seWed up the front of the palm of the glove, asshown in Fig. l, has not asingle seam in it,

and the thumb forms an integral part of it,

thus avoiding the usual construction of a separate thumb in whole or inpart and the usual seam bounding the ball of the thumb,as when the thumbis set into the usual thumbgouge. the only seam in the back is the shortseam ly y, which extends from the base of the thumb connection with thefirst finger across to the seam b h, which unites the main piece to thesecond-finger fourchette B, said seam y y extending diagonallydownwardly and in line With and continuing, in fact, the seam of thethumb itself. Finally, by reference to Fig. l, it Will be seen that theseams d d', which unite the gore D to the main piece, are Well down onthe wrist of the glove. Thus I am enabled to securefthe main object ofmy invention, which is to form the entire thumb integral with the mainpart of the glove and to avoid any seams in the palm. There is in myglove, therefore, no seam on the palm to strain and open, as is thecase' where' the thumb is in Whole or in part a separate piece and islet into a thumb-gouge. The seams d cI in the front being on the Wristare not subject to injurious strain. also gives greater freedom to thethumb and to the Whole hand, makes a good t, gives durability to theglove, and results in economy in cutting.

In practice there is a further and very es- It will further be seen byFig. 2 that- My construction IOC sential point to be noticed in theconstruction of the main piece A, with regard to the best position ofthe seam y y, which when the glove is sewed up is the only seam requiredto unite the thumb portion to the rest of the trank A. This seam isformed by the union of the edge fy, Figs. 3 and 4, at the base of thefirst finger with the edge y2, Fig. 3, on one side of the wrist or topbelow the thumb. If vthe edge y at the base of the first finger be cutin straight as the continuation of the thumb out and nothing further isdone, the resulting seam y y will pass directly and substantially atright angles over the knuckle of the first finger. This is not the bestdisposition of this seam, as it is both inconvenient to the finger andis subject to the full strain of the most powerful knuckle. If the edge'y' were cut from a little above at a downward inclination to meet thecutof the thumb, the resulting seam would extend at an upwardinclination infront of the knuckle. This direction of the seam,whileperhaps better than the straight one, is still not desirable, as it isunsightly. The best direction for the seam y y is that shown in Fig. 2,wherein it extends or inclines diagonally downwardly below the knuckle,thus giving entire freedom with minimum strain; but as this directionnecessarily implies an undercutting of the edge y', which, as shown inFig. 3, lies considerably under. the thumb, being formed by apositively-projecting point a3 of material integral with the rest of thepiece, it would seem at first glance impossible to cut out such apattern; but the capability of leather to stretch furnishes thesolution. The underlying point a3 is stretched to its shape after apreliminary straight cut, and thereby forms the projecting point as, asshown in full in the reversed Fig.4,said pointhavinginclined edgey,which is necessary to give the required downward inclination to seam yy.It will be noted also that the thumb portion of the pattern of Fig. 3 isnot cut at exactly rightangles to the remainder of the pattern, but isslightly downwardly inclined thereto. This necessitates the lower edgeofthe wrist or top of the glove to be cut parallel to the thumbinclination, whereby when folded the top will be square.. and the thumbwill be given a more natural position with relation to the glove.

The gore D of Fig. 7 is a single piece at first, and on account of theincline of the thumb and top said gore is an unequal-sided triangle. Itis seamed into the glove as a whole and is subsequently cut on the lined2, Fig. 7, to form the wrist-opening d, Fig. l, the cut of said openingbeing continued, as shown, beyond the apex of the gore-seams CZ' d', sothat said cut enters the strong material of the glove and does notterminate in a union of seams.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1.V In a glove, a main portion formed from a trank having a thumbintegral therewith, the trank being separated along the upper edge ofthe thumb and base of the first finger and the base of said lingerhaving a point overlapping the thumb, the inner edge of said pointinclining upwardly toward the interior of the trank, said trank havingalso a free edge below the thumb adapted to unite with the inclined edgeof the point to join the thumb by a seam in the back extendingdiagonally downwardly across the base of the first finger below theknuckle.

2. A glove consisting of a' main portion formed from a trank having athumb integral therewith, the trank being separated along the upper edgeof the thumb and base of the first finger andthe base of said fingerhaving a point overlapping the thu mb, the inner edge of said pointinclining upwardly toward the interior of the trank, said trank havingalso a free edge below the thumb adapted to unite with the inclined edgeof the point tojoin the thumb by a seam in the back extending diagonallydownwardly across the base of the first finger below the knuckle,suitable fourchettes in the back, and a gore in the front wrist.

3. A glove consisting of an integral main portion forming the palm, thethumb with its wrist extension, the rst and fourth fingers with thewrist extension of said fourth linger, and the fronts of the second andthird lingers, the thumb of said main portion be ing separated along itsupper edge fromthe base of the first finger and the base of said fingerhaving a point overlapping the thumb, the inner edge of said pointinclining upwardly toward the interior of said main portion, said mainportion having also a free edge below the thumb adapted to unite withthe inclined edge of the point to join the thumb by a seam in the backextending diagonally downwardly across the base of the first fingerbelow the knuckle, fourchettes forming the backs of the second and thirdfingers and the wrist extensions, and agore in the front wrist tocomplete the top.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDERICK H. BUSBY.

Witnesses:

WALTER F. VANE, D. B. RICHARDS.

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